Exciting news for our family! We’re in the early stages of building a new house. With the help of our builder, we were able to find a lot and agreed to buy it. More to come on that as the project unfolds.

Dana and I went out to dinner to celebrate.

Our new lot!

Our lot is heavily wooded, just the way we like it. We look forward to continuing our life together in our now home.

Happy Easter!

Baba Celebrated her 71st Birthday! We love you!

With Love from Arizona. Happy Easter from Arya.

Also in April:

Lee and I along with the rest of our team travelled to Florida to compete in a Champ Car race at the Daytona Speedway. We completed 7 hours of the 14 hour race before mechanical failure. Even with the failure, we all had a great time and reveled in the fact that we just ran on Daytona!

Packing up the next day, I took a picture to catch how ominous the clouds looked. It was a not very Florida like 65 degrees.

Lee and I made it back just in time to Celebrate my 44th birthday!

The following weekend, I ran my first autocross with my local region. Unfortunately, Junior Kart is still on hiatus due to safety issues but that didn’t slop Luke from riding with me and having a good time!

Later on in the month. More snow.

Even with spring around the corner, Luke and I are still working on hobbies. After watching a few you tube videos, he wanted to try paint dipping. It turned out “interesting” but he had fun!

“Dad, I’m trying the paint!”

In other news, I picked up my ’21 Dodge Challenger Scat Pack Widebody. This thing is a beast!

By chance, Baba picked up her new Accord on the same day!

Let’s go spring!

We all met to celebrate Anna’s 9th birthday! Happy Birthday!

Since the snow won’t go away, Memaw took the kids to the park to go sledding.

Just when we thought we had enough snow, we got more snow!

With so much snow on the ground, we needed to carve a path around the yard so Doug could do his “business”

In non-snow related news, Dana wanted to try her hand at clock repair. We rebuilt an old clock with a new movement and chime module.

Starting out the year, Luke now has braces and we were buried with snow.

We celebrated Bozic at Baba’s

Luke’s braces: Time to get all those teeth in order!

It seemed like January was nothing but snow. Luke and I did take advantage and built snow forts and engaged in a fun snow ball fight!

Thought I would jus throw this out there! Bumpin’ party at the Samardzich’s.

Luke was still attending class online. When he had to go in for his yearbook picture, he wouldn’t take off his mask. We decided on re-takes but we snapped a shot of the pictures before we sent them back. Still cute!

Lee and I headed up to Wisconsin for a Champ Car Race at Road America. It never got above 40 degrees while we were there but had a good time anyway!

Happy Halloween from Arya!

Happy Halloween from us!

This was the first year Luke did not trick or treat. It was a sad moment but we still carved pumpkins and handed out candy. Luke still wore a costume. A banana. He ate a banana while wearing the banana costume. Doesn’t seem right!

I headed out to another event at Grissom Air Base.

We celebrated Jessica’s birthday

Dana’s office diploma! Congrats!

Spaz will gladly use any lap available. As long as Doug isn’t around.

For Dana’s birthday, she wanted to go goat walking. It is exactly what you think. Walking goats. We enjoyed the afternoon and then we celebrated in the evening.

Arya and Andrija enjoying the day.

Cardinal on the cardinal decorated feeder? Yes please!

Sadly, Don Muhleman passed away early on August 1st. He left us too soon and will be missed.

I started the month out with a soggy race day at Grissom Airbase. Unfortunately, my run group was the only one that had to run in the rain.

Dana and Lee flew down to Florida to make arrangements for Don’s passing.

I took a few vacation days so Luke and I could enjoy the last few days of his summer vacation. We took his kart to Michiana Raceway park and had a blast. The next day we took our RC trucks out to the local hobby shop and enjoyed their track. In between, hilarity ensued.

Sunday dinner at our house. Anna and Layla took advantage of our empty family room with a bit of dancing. Doug did not seem amused?

Luke’s first day of school! Starting 7th grade. Luke will be attending classes online while staying home.

Congratulations Dana!

Dana wrapped up her grad school experience! She is now a Clinical Mental Health Professional!

Unfortunately, due to Covid, the university did not have a formal commencement. Dana still donned her cap and gown for pictures. Later, Dana met with her classmates at the university chapel for group photos.

Later in the month, Lee and I headed out to Gingerman raceway for a Champ Car event. We did well on day one but had a failure on day 2 that ended our race about an hour and a half early. Even with that, we had a great time!

While hanging out at Lee and Jessica’s house, the kids were playing with our cars.

As has been tradition, we picked up some fireworks and had some fun.

Luke and his hair

This guy is cute. It’s why he’s still alive!

Layla hopped into my car and grabbed my sunglasses. Super cool and super cute!

Doug loves his skritches!

We attended a drama club awards presentation where Luke was recognized for his efforts behind stage in recent performances.

Sleepover at Memaw’s! Anna and Layla stayed the night and spent time at the pool.

At the end of the month, Lee had a “cruise night” at his house where a few of us brought our toys and talked cars.

Luke did quite a bit of fishing over the year and managed to snag this monster!

Luke and I took his new kite out for a spin. The wind wasn’t quite right for a kite this size but we did get it in the air for a bit.

Everyone, including Doug, is enjoying the warmer weather.

Happy 12th Birthday Luke! Luke’s friend Ben and his family, along with Anna, Layla and family joined us to help celebrate! A good time was had by all!

Luke and Ben had the idea to camp out in the back yard. We set up a tent and they ended up coming in to sleep in the house.

As a treat for Dana, I set up a pole for bird feeders. Set in about 260 lbs of concrete, this thing isn’t going anywhere!

Happy Father’s Day!

I’m pretty sure Luke was trying to do an Ace Ventura bit with his hair.

Ominous sky over the house today.

Party hats aren’t fun for all. Doug doesn’t seem to be too thrilled.

Arya and Andrija enjoying a day in the pool.

Humming bird!

Luke and I enjoyed the nice spring day by spending time outside and taking care of some yard work.

Sunday dinner at our place with the Muhlemans!

Luke “helped” me lay out the new carpet in my workshop. I never did figure out what he was trying to do but we had a good time.